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Can Opener - Literally flipping your lid!
Reach over your shoulder and head, and hold the hat in an inverted pinch grip
Flick the wrist upwards and release the hat, which will execute a perfect single spin (honest). Coat-peg catch above your head.
Minus five style points if you have to look...
Plus 10 points if you can catch the hat on your head blind, and without the coat-peg grip.
From the TricksWithHats archive
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Take a pinch grip at the front of the hat's crown and flick it up and forwards. Turn the hand round so the palm is facing forwards to catch the hat in another pinch grip at the back. After you've got a feel for this try doing it without looking at the hat.
Either place it straight back on the head or reverse the process to return it.
If you use a bowler hat make sure you take a really firm pinch to crease the top of the hat when removing it, otherwise you'll be left trying to catch the smooth round surface of the back of the hat.
Once you've mastered this one it's a trivial task to start by pinching the back of the hat and flicking it to a catch on the front.
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04-12-2015
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It's easier to spin a ball on your finger than a hat, so click here to learn to spin a ball first. Once you've got that solid it should be easy to transfer the skill over to your hat.
It's easier with a bowler as the hat will dent slightly and sit on the finger better.
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04-12-2015
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After getting the hat to your foot (the knock to foot is the most common way, but there are plenty of others) you can hop and quickly remove your foot from the hat. Quickly get your throwing foot onto the ground and place the other foot inside the hat. As you can see from the video the hat stays fairly still and it's you that does all the movement.
This video of the hat being spun as it is thrown between the feet should give you some ideas for variations on this trick.
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04-12-2015
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Place your palm flat on the back of the head for a neck chop and knock the hat upwards with the little finger side of the hand.
A few tries and you will see how much force is required to get it to spin 3/4 and land on your foot. You need to flex your foot as much as possible to stop it slipping off.
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04-12-2015
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Onehanded, Continuous Tumbles - The hat keeps tumbling, in your hand, continuously, infinitely, forever, or at least until you stop.
This trick is an extension of the Tumble - so go learn that one now.
You'll notice that after you have performed a tumble, you are holding the hat the wrong way round to perform a second tumble immediately after it. This is where the extension comes in.
During the first tumble (which is a standard tumble), the hat rotates 1.5 times. The second tumble is similar, but the hat is thrown without a change in grip, it still does 1.5 spins, which means that it is now facing the same way as when you started!
Inorder to give yourself space for the second tumble, it feels like you need to throw it a tiny bit higher or faster.
Try to make it all flow together into a continuous movement, the hat shouldn't ever pause, the hand acts more as a guide to keep it rotating in the right direction.
A nice variation on this is to tumble the hat infront of you, switching hands between tumbles.
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06-12-2015
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Use a palm-up fork grip at the back of the hat and remove it, straightening the arm. As the arm straightens twist the wrist and take the ring finger off the brim. Spin the hat so that it moves between the middle and forefingers, then transfer the grip to the forefinger and thumb and continue the spin for as far as you can.
Reverse the "twiddle" to place it back on the head.
The main video clip for this trick doesn't show the fingers in any great detail. See the closeup version (120K mpeg) for a better view. For best results you might want to set your video player to loop the clip.
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15-03-2015
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The hatstand made its debut at chocfest 7, where I was compering. After a period of prototyping and refining, I built the version that worked. I demoed this a couple of times then it broke. I replaced the elastic and set it up for the big day, used it on stage and it worked, then broke next time I used it.
Be prepared to spend significant tinkering time in between uses, and for frequent breakdowns. That said, it's never let me down when I've needed it.
All in all I've found it a great way to get chicks[1], if you don't count the long evenings spent honing the design and strewing the house with geeky construction equipment, and the fact you'll be laughed out of most nightclubs if you go in wearing a topper. But on stage it works, and it has drawn admiring glances from fellow jugglers and even won us a bag full of croissants on one occasion.
Sweavo, June 2003
[1] facts may vary
From the TricksWithHats archive
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Hold your hat crown up in an inside grip with the fingers spread as wide as you can. Throw the hat gently towards your head with a bit of spin.
Look up towards the hat as it spins and move your body (and feet if necessary) so that your head is beneath it. As the hat lands, nod your head forward so that you are looking straight ahead.
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15-03-2015
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Twiddled Big Circles - A trickier but nicer version of Big Circles
Big Circles is a big, visual trick, but the grip change can be slightly ungainly. The twiddle that this trick adds gives a similar effect but has a smoother, if slightly more difficult, change.
Mike and LP disagree on the best way to do this - LP's way, shown in the video clip above, is to do a finger twiddle, as described in the Forward Twiddle when the hat is at the top of the circle. Mike uses a Thumb Spin to adjust the grip.
Try both and decide which feels more comfortable to you, there's little point getting both smooth as they look identical to anyone except a hat manipulation geek, and there aren't many of them in the world!
From the TricksWithHats archive
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15-03-2015
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3 club with balance blind kick to 4.
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08-11-2012
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2 male Chinese acrobats performing with tridents. I do not know which troupe they are from.
This skill is sometimes called Fei-cha. It is a traditional Chinese acrobatic form. The tridents have loose elements at the head, which creates the characteristic jangling noise.
From a video titled Chinese Acrobatic Feats.
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04-09-2015
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Solo female Chinese acrobat performing with tridents. I do not know which troupe she is from.
This skill is sometimes called Fei-cha. It is a traditional Chinese acrobatic form. The tridents have loose elements at the head, which creates the characteristic jangling noise.
From a video titled Beijing Magic Shows.
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04-09-2015
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Teenage boy & girl from Chinese acrobatic troupe performing with tridents - a traditional Chinese acrobatic form. From the Chinese National troupe.
The trident heads have loose elements which make the characteristic jangling noise.
(This skill is also known as fei-cha)
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04-09-2015
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This form of staff juggling now seems to be commonly called "fei-cha".
It comes from the traditional Chinese acrobatic repertoire, and in chinese acrobatics books and videos that I have seen it is translated as "trident manipulation".
The trident has loose elements at the head, which make the jangling sound - it's often a very noisy act.
This spinner is Mohamed Badr El Nouby from the Cairo Circus School.
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02-09-2015
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Trip The Switch, Ian Deady and Gerardo Martin Martel went to Lugansk in the Ukraine, survived the vodka and got to perform at the Future of Circus Festival and win a prize which we were told was Jury Special Prize. We couldn't read it, it's written in Cyrillic. But lovely decrepit cheesy permanent Brehznev era circus building.
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19-02-2010
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Triple Date juggled at the 2016 Tasmanian Circus Festival./nJugglers: Liz, Danni, Teagan, Ollie, Pete, Lachie.
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02-03-2017
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Troupe nationale de Chine at "Festival mondial du cirque de demain" (2005)
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16-08-2017
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Video edit : metlili.net y Fotocassetto
Ganadores primer lugar de la Trukoteca Audiovisual
Jugglers: Ingrid Johanna Bogota Meneses, Andru Geovanny Beltran Martin Valentin de Nicolas Ordoñez Lozada/nCompañia: Trenzarte Circo-Teatro/nGracias Esfera Malabares
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24-07-2014
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Everyone's invited to the 5th annual Juggling Festival, "Turbo 418", at the Circus School of Quebec*. Ridiculous amounts of juggling will take place January 7th-9th, 2011...Tons of great guests, an amazing show, and an overall awesome time! Hope to see you there!/nTurbo418.com/nl'école de cirque de Québec*
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Vidéo/Video: SIMON GARANT - http://preroll.ca/sg
Musique/Music : "Rouse your bones" - Broadcast 2000./nhttp://www.turbo418.com
http://www.facebook.com/Turbo418
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Turbo Fest 2010
8-10 January
6pm friday to 6pm sunday
more information soon...
8 à 10 janvier
18h vendredi à 18h dimanche
plus d'infos bientôt
http://www.turbo418.com
http://www.myspace.com/turbo418
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12005708722
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Turbo Fest 2010
8-10 January
6pm friday to 6pm sunday
more information soon...
8 à 10 janvier
18h vendredi à 18h dimanche
plus d'infos bientôt
http://www.turbo418.com
http://www.myspace.com/turbo418
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=12005708722
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Turbo Fest 5!
7-9 Jan 2011, l'École de Crique de Québec./nhttp://www.Turbo418.com
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22-11-2010
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Casual Arcane and friends attend Turbofest 2012 in Quebec City, Quebec!
The end of the world definitely began with an amazing juggling festival!
Thanks to all who attended! /nEdited: Casual Arcane (Facebook.com/casualarcane)
Music: Clash (Original Mix) by Caravan Palace
Turbo418.com
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